In either version, Bob is already expected to be among the group(s) in question, but is singled out as if he's not, usually at Bob's expense; "Bob" may be anyone, including the Butt Monkey or an Acceptable Target. In extreme cases, the group will be received with cheers, and the name of Bob will be received by Chirping Crickets.

This can be Played for Laughs in cases where it's literally impossible for Bob not to be a member of the groups mentioned.

It can also be used to deliver a Stealth Insult: "We welcome members of all benevolent professions, as well as lawyers." Or, inverted, it can even deliver a compliment: "You morons, and Bob."

In a 2013 TV Land promo for the season premieres of Hot In Cleveland, The Exes, and The Soul Man, the announcer promotes it as "a night of a thousand stars" before Betty White interrupts and says she only counts 10... and Wayne Knight. note The breakdown: Four from The Exes (which has the aforementioned Wayne Knight), four from Hot In Cleveland (including Betty herself), and two from The Soul Man.

In the "Junkface" ad from Neutrogena, it states that the Junkface problem occurs in "provinces, territories... and Nunavut." According to their Artistic License – Geography, Nunavut is not one of the territories... oh, and its border with the Northwest Territories apparently doesn't exist.

A promotion for the Nintendo UK store offered, with a pre-order of Sonic Boom, "a free t-shirt featuring a host of likeable characters. And Amy Rose."

Presumably unintentional example from an advert broadcast in the UK: "Get all these hilarious comedies, and Grown Ups and The Other Guys, on Blu-Ray or DVD"

Mazinger Z: Hilariously inverted every time the villains told a sentence along the lines of "Go ahead! Finish with Mazinger-Z... and the other two robots!". The other two robots being Aphrodite-A (or Diana-A) and Boss Borot.

The Battle City arc of Yu-Gi-Oh! features a scene with Seto Kaiba in a single turn summoning all three of his Blue-Eyes White Dragons...and Hyozanryu.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Chazz says "we may be one man down, but we're 5 men strong. Well, 4 men and a lovely lady. Alright, 3 men, a lady and Syrus!"

Natsu of Fairy Tail and anyone who doesn't go on missions with him likes to say either "It's Natsu's group...plus Happy" or "Fairy Tail's strongest team...and Lucy" Lucy and Happy even do it. Only Gray seems kind enough not to.

In Durarara!! the character Izaya Orihara claims to love all human beings. Except Shizuo Heiwajima.

In an early episode of Pokémon, Misty says that she's the 4th sensational sister, who were a trio of water performers and Misty's sisters. One of them said that there are "three sensational sisters, and one runt."

A later episode features a tag battle during a ball. The participants are Serena, Ash, Miette and James. The latter was even wondering why he got selected in the first place, and was the least invested in the battle.

Kyoutarou, The One Guy of the Kiyosumi mahjong club and by far its worst player, tends to get this from time to time. In the anime, Hisa tells Mako that she locked the three first-years out of the mahjong club room so that Yuuki would be able to study for her exam retake. Mako reminds Hisa that there are four first-years, and Hisa mentions that Kyoutarou is, as usual, doing the heavy lifting for the club.

The trope is lampshaded to an extent when Tsuruga talks about being invited, along with Kazekoshi and Ryuumonbuchi, to help Kiyosumi prepare for the nationals after their victory in the prefectural tournament. Yumi suspects that Kiyosumi's team wants to practice against Kazekoshi and Ryuumonbuchi, both of whom have been to the nationals before, more than they want to practice against the relative underdog Tsuruga, but sees it as a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Yumi: I can understand wanting to play strong opponents in preparation for going up against the monsters at the nationals. Ryuumonbuchi and Kazekoshi from the prefectural finals at least are national-level teams. Satomi: Wa-ha-ha. So we're just the extra? Yumi: [smiles] Kiyosumi isn't trying to be mean. And it doesn't sound half bad to me.

In Etotama, when Usa-tan is showing everyone a chart of which Eto-shin do and do not want Nya-tan included in the Chinese Zodiac, Moo-tan (who has a crush on Nya-tan and thus would be in her favor) is excluded because "she's too perverted to count."

an animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

Brian Regan: "My wife and I, we have two wonderful kids...and another kid."

Riche and Eddie in Bottom did this with their Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity tour, during a rather moving funeral scene for Dave the parrot. "Dearly beloved... and Eddie."

Wolverine: The stink of what you've been doing is all over you. You're torturing my friends. Summers, too.

In a Justice League of America comic, Ultraman (an evil alternate version of Superman) addresses Batman this way. It's really more of his way of un-subtly insulting Owlman (his universe's version of Batman) as having little purpose in the Crime Syndicate. Ultraman and Owlman tend to make remarks like this all the time.

"Say your goodbyes. Only a few seconds left before the strongest among you- and Batman- find yourselves on our world. We'll kill the others slowly."

In the Polish comic book series Tytus, Romek i A'tomek, in the issue #18 called "Tytus Artystą" ("Tytus As An Artist"), we have this unique case:

Radio announcement: A subhuman named Tytus left his home and didn't return, distinguishing marks: has fur. Speaks human and English.

In a variation where the format works as a compliment, one Gorillaz fanfic featured Murdoc calling the other band members "you retards - and Noodle". Possibly attempting to save his own skin, given Noodle's Tyke Bomb status.

From Merlin fanfic How to Pick Up Guys At Bars: "It took Arthur a little over an hour to decide what to wear. Fretting over clothes was such a girly thing to do, he didn't dare ask any of the men for their help. (Instead he asked Lancelot.)"

This was the great Toad Sage who had saved Konoha’s survivors from total annihilation? The disciple of the Third Hokage who was almost a legend? A writer of dirty books for dirty men (and Kakashi-sensei)?

A Running Gag in Monster In The Twilight and its sequel with the CMC. Adult characters repeatedly refer to them as "The girls. And Featherweight," with Featherweight usually interjecting "Hey!" at the appropriate point.

A Very Potter Musical (Harry, to Ginny, Hermione, Ron, and Draco: "I love you all, you know that? Except for you, Draco. I fucking hate you."

Hope On A Distant Mountain: Naegi has a lot of regrets about what happened in the events of Dangan Ronpa, and wishes that he could have helped everyone out more, including the murderers and mastermind. ...Except for Hagakure. Screw that guy.

Bakura: Enough! You may have won this battle, Pharaoh, but you shall not win the war! Atem: Yeah, let's do a head count here, shall we? I've got Slifer, Obelisk and Ra: the Egyptian Gods, Priest Seto, who can tear monsters out of people's souls, a girl who can predict the future, one of the most powerful sorcerers in the world, and his... less powerful apprentice, an old man who possesses the ultimate and unstoppable monsters, and Shada. Yeah... not sure what Shada actually does, really, but... but there you go, that's the head count.

Will: I'm going to go somewhere normal, with my normal friends to a place full of normal people. Dad: And you.

The French movie Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! has one right in the title ("Boys! William! Dinner's ready!"). The main character (Guillaume) spent most of his childhood acting like a girl, due to his mother acting as the title implies.

All of the blurbs on the back cover described the adventures of "X (the main character of that particular installment), the Animorphs, and Ax," with the subtle implication that, being an alien (and a Sixth Ranger), Ax didn't really count. It may be a reference to the fact that they came up with the term "Animorph" to refer to each other before Ax joined, but still...

The comedic version was also done, where Rachel demanded the Helmacrons free "my friends...and Marco, too..."

In "Pretty in Pink" by Rachel Maude, Seedy Moon is about to give a speech at his engagement party to "friends, family, and Tila Tequila" .

From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Oliver Wood does it to himself, when he lists the members of the Quidditch team: "We've got three superb Chasers. We've got two unbeatable Beaters. And we've got a Seeker who has never failed to win us a match! (after long pause in which he realizes he's forgotten someone) And me." In an aversion to this trope, the other players are quick to tell Wood that they think he's very good, too.

In Snuff, it's mentioned that the Watch "appears to include at least one of every known bipedal sapient species, plus one Nobby Nobbs".

In Daniel Pinkwater's The Last Guru, protagonist Harold Blatz at once point mails a certificate to "every man, woman, and child in the civilized world and Iceland."

The protagonist in one of the books in the ''Karlsson on the Roof" series addresses his audience repeatedly as "my friends - and Kirre" - the latter being the greedy one.

Live-Action TV

In Downton Abbey, every time all of the servants are called up to the main hall, Daisy asks, "and me?" or prepares to go up, to which the response is invariably some version of "No Daisy, not you." This was dropped in Season 3, as Daisy became an assistant cook, allowed up with the other servants.

In Cougar Town: "I thought it wouldn't be so bad to spend this day with a few friends. Plus, Ellie is here."

The Basil Brush Show Has this comic line whilst Basil is reading a goodbye note from his Cousin Mortimer, his arch enemy.

They also like to conveniently ignore him when he brings up the fact that as an engineer he doesn't really need a doctorate to go as far as he can in his chosen profession. Case in point: Of the main cast he gets to build and operate Mars rovers, work with science icons like Stephen Hawking, and even go into space as an astronaut. It's because his skills are far more in demand on an everyday basis.

One episode Sheldon even goes as far as to refer to the main cast as his three best friends and a "treasured acquaintance". They were unsure which of them was the acquaintance until he returned at the end of the episodenote It was Howard, though other episodes has him acknowledge that all four are his friends..

All in the Family used a variant in "California, Here We Are." Visiting Mike and Gloria over the holidays, Archie and Edith discover the Stivics are separated and that Gloria has been seeing another married man:

Archie: How could you do a thing like this to your family? [points at Mike] And him...

Wings: An episode wherein Fay, gathered with the whole group to console and help someone, assures the person that he is surrounded by nice, compassionate friends who care for his well-being. And Roy.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: After a disastrous poker game, Lou Grant informs Mary, "Well Mary, there's something you have to remember about poker. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. It's being involved in a group activity with people you like. And Ted."

Kelso: Listen up, faces. In order to save us all some time, I will call all the males "Daves" and all the females "Debbies". Debbie: "Debbie"'s actually my name! Kelso: Then out of fairness to the others you will be "Slagathor". Daves, Debbies, Slagathor, I will be in my office; if you need anything feel free to bother Dorian.

The second time, Audrey got mad at Jeff for not supporting her in front of her friends. And Russell.

Reba has Brock, upon walking into Cheyenne's baby shower, do: "Look at all these beautiful women. (Looks at Lori Ann) You must be security." Lori Ann insults right back afterward. In a separate episode, Reba walks into the kitchen, sees Cheyenne, Van, and Barbra Jean, and says: "Hello, loved ones. Barbra Jean."

Star Trek: Voyager: The Doctor makes a lot of these types of jokes at Tom Paris's expense.

In the opening of "Year of Hell Part 1", the Doctor is moved to a speech that delivers one of these from out of nowhere.

"Who would have thought this group of voyagers could actually become a family: Starfleet, Maquis, Klingon, Tallaxian, Hologram, Borg, even Mr. Paris."note Being a dishonorably discharged convict at the beginning of the series, it's true that Tom Paris technically isn't with Starfleet...but that's sure not what the Doctor's delivery is implying.

In another early episode, the Doctor was discussing with Kes his problems: he was built as an emergency software for special cases and now has to be available 24 hours a day, everyone treats him as he did not even exist, nobody tells him what's going on, nobody remembers to shut hm when leaving, he has nobody to assist him... Kes pointed that Paris was assigned to be his nurse. "Like I said, nobody to assist me".

In "Living Witness", the Doctor wakes up in the future to find that the historians of that era have painted a rather unflattering picture of their ancestors' run-in with the Voyager crew, and depicted them all like evil, violent lunatics. When he protests this, he follows it up by singling out Paris as not having been that different in real life from the way he's portrayed in the recreation (which is more cocky than evil).

In Married... with Children, when Al's wife Peg informs them that she has invited the neighbors Marcy and Jefferson over for a game of "Ethical Dilemma", Al responds, "Oh a dream come true by gum! You mean I actually get to spend an evening playing a board game with two people I can't stand, and Jefferson?"

In another episode, when the Bundys go to a charity basketball game, the announcer introduces "...your NBA All-Stars...and Danny Ainge."

On Top Gear, for the British Leyland specialnote Series 10, Episode 7, Richard explains why the presenters face such a challenge proving that the company ever made a good car, ever.

Hammond: [narrating] Now, for our younger viewers, we should explain why the Top Gear office thinks the three of us lost our marbles. See, some B.L. cars were quite badly built ... but most weren't built at all.

Romford: Tempting, but I'm going to have go with saving my friends. And Aethelwynne.

Used a couple times on M*A*S*H, when Charles Winchester enters the Swamp where Hawkeye, BJ and Radar are talking, and greets them:

Charles: Gentlemen...and Corporal.

While played for laughs, this is actually correct protocol. Hawkeye and BJ are captains, and the proper term to address a group of male officers is "gentlemen;" Radar, as a corporal, is not a part of that group, so it would also be proper and polite to address him separately from Hawkeye and BJ.

Used more often when Charles Winchester would leave any group of people that Hawkeye was in, "Good day, Gentlemen...Pierce"

They had an inverted one in a later episode when Col. Potter has to take Rizzo's remedial driving course:

Brenda: I was promised a crew of elite detectives, and what Captain Taylor here has given me is a bunch of junior varsity wannabes and Provenza!

In season five of 30 Rock, Tracy has a personal crisis and disappears for several weeks, almost leading to the cancellation of TGS. Upon returning, he goes to his dressing room and is reunited with Grizz, Dot Com, and Kenneth:

Tracy: Look, we got a lot of work to catch up on. Kenneth: Yes sir! It just feels so good to have the 3 Musketeers and Dot Com back together again. [Dot Com gives Kenneth a dirty look]

In the second-to-last (originally aired on December 8th) episode of the 2012 edition (Series 9) of The Xtra Factor, companion show to The X Factor, Olly Murs introduces the celebrity guests, "and Rylan."

There was an old, Danish children's mini-series named Og Valdemar ("And Valdemar"). It is about a boy called Valdemar who is the youngest in a huge family and is always forgotten by everybody else who will only think of him at the last moment and then say "oh yes... and Valdemar". This has made him think his actual name is "And Valdemar", cue the series title. All the episodes are about Valdemar, either on purpose or inadvertently, trying to hog the spotlight and sometimes succeeding, but always returning to being the forgotten one at the end of the episode.

When Maggie joined the cast to replace Arturo in Sliders, she wasn't exactly embraced warmly - especially by Wade. Rembrandt points this attitude out in "The Other Slide of Darkness."

On Only Fools and Horses Del describes the seating plan for the meal with Raquel's parents as "Girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy and Uncle Albert."

On Pawn Stars, Rick Harrison stated he was throwing a party in honor of his best employees, and Chumlee.

The Dick Van Dyke Show has someone do it to himself. In one episode, Rob witnesses a crime (sort of), and wants to tell the police what he saw. Laura doesn't want him to put himself in any danger, but he puts his foot down and says, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... and so do I!"

An episode of Counting Cars opens with Danny greeting his crew with "Good morning gentlemen! You too, Mike."

On Survivor, when Sandra finally makes her move against Russell, she has this to say:

"I'm voting for Russell, because I've been waiting to vote him out for 30 days too long. It's time for revenge, and this is for Courtney, Boston Rob, Tyson, and even Coach, who I don't care about, but I'll throw him in there too."

Whenever Dick Gautier and his wife Barbara Stuart appeared on Tattletales and the question was posited to the husbands, Bert Convy would start the question "Gentlemen...and you too, Dick..."

Douglas: "My father was particularly proud of the IT Department, run by a dynamic go-getter, a genius, and a man from Ireland."

In the final episode:

Jen: "With my business acumen..."

Moss: "...and my technical know-how..."

Roy: "I'm also here!"

Person of Interest. In "Contingency", Reese's search for a kidnapped Finch is waylaid by neo-nazi criminals who've captured Reese and Bound and Gagged Detective Fusco. Reese tries to explain he's not interested in their activities.

Reese: I just wanna find my friend. See, I don't have many friends. Just the one, in fact. (Fusco gives annoyed grunt) Maybe two...

An episode of ALF had the family throw a party for ALF with all the humans he'd met, in order to show him that he wasn't as isolated as he thought. He consistently referred to them as "My friends... and Dorothynote Kate's mom, with whom ALF didn't get along that well," except in his final iteration of the phrase: "My friends... including Dorothy."

Being a drummer doesn't help, either. Drummers in general are often the butt of a lot of jokes about musicians. For example: "What do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians all day?"

Pete Best's lack of desire to be friends with the group offstage is a big part of the reason he was replaced by Ringo.

McCartney carried this into his post-Beatles career: the liner notes of Band on the Run state that "Paul would like to thank Linda/And Linda would like to thank Paul/And thanx Denny" (that being Laine, the only non-McCartney member of Wings on the album).

In the They Might Be Giants song, The Mesopotamians, the fictional band is made up of Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh. Poor old Gilgamesh's name is covered by the chorus nearly every time by the end of the song. Oddly, the song was supposed to be a parallel of The Might Be Giant's start. Make of that what you will.

Machine Head had a pretty lulzy one at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards where they thanked all the awesome bands on Roadrunner...and Nickelback.

On Showbread's tour supporting their album No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical, they were the headlining band, with two metal bands opening for them. Showbread's frontman, Josh Dies, referred to the tour several times as "the Monsters of Metal Tour...and Showbread".

This is how The B-52s have been since the Cosmic Thing period, where the core four members (and on Good Stuff, three) are always considered the group, and the rest of the backing band (bassist, drummer and keyboardist) are rarely mentioned, except live when its necessary to introduce them. This backing band doesn't have an input into the songwriting process by all accounts.

The new Stone Temple Pilots line-up is now officially referred to as Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington.

This is how Nile has treated every bassist since Jon Vesano. Most were technically full-time members (Steve Tucker and Christian "Kreishloff" Lofgren were one-time live members, but Joe Payne was officially a session member for almost two years), but promo photos usually only Karl, Dallas, and George, and the former two have recorded the bass tracks on every album since Annihilation of the Wicked. Brad Parris has at least appeared in promo photos, but, as has been the case with all post-Vesano albums, he didn't record any tracks (to be fair, he was hired after What Should Not Be Unearthed was done being recorded; the same can't be said for Chris Lollis, who around for two separate recording processes but never actually laid down any tracks).

A subtle version in the liner notes for Faith No More's King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime. The band is listed at the beginning of the credits after the lyrics...except for Trevor Dunn, who's guitar credit is listed at the very end, after engineer interns and such. This was a bit of a Take That at him for bailing on the band after replacing Jim Martin and recording the album because he decided he didn't want to tour.

If the trope had been used straight at the time, these biblical examples would have been inversions:

In Mark 16:7, an angel tells the ladies visiting Jesus' (empty) tomb to "tell his disciples and Peter" to meet up in Galilee. This is an inversion of the trope: Peter had denied Jesus three times a couple days before, so the angel is specifying that he should be included among the Disciples.

In the Old Testament, the Bible mentions that Solomon had seven hundred wives, "and Pharaoh's daughter." This acts as an inversion according to many commentators, who note that she's singled out because Solomon loved her much more than the others.

In The Qur'an, the verse 98 of the second surat says " Whosoever is an enemy unto Allah and His angels and His apostles and Jibril and Mikailnote arab names of Gabriel and Michael, then verily Allah is an enemy unto the infidels." According to commentators, Jibril and Mikail are apart because they are the most important angels.

Pinballs

In Cactus Canyon, the list of offenses on the "Help Wanted" poster includes the following:

...insulting the fine and God-fear'n women of Cactus Canyon (with the exception of a certain Saloon Gal who shall remain nameless)...

Podcasts

When describing the Avengers, Joel Zammit of Plumbing The Death Star intentionally leaves Black Widow and Hawkeye at the end of the sentence to make a point of how out of place they are in the group.

"As I said so many episodes ago, the Avengers is like strong guy, strong guy, strong guy, very strong guy, bow and arrow, guns."

Pro Wrestling

Mick Foley did this all the time to prank his friend Al Snow. When he "retired", he was presented with the original WWF Hardcore Championship by a lot of the other extreme wrestlers. In his farewell speech, he said "It's an honor to be in the ring with so many hardcore legends. And Al Snow!" On another occasion, he managed to convince a pilot to announce after a landing "Welcome to all the WWF Superstars...and Al Snow."

Mick also used a non-insulting version in his book, about one of his indy matches. "I was busted wide open in front of 25 hardcore wrestling fans and my wife's sister"

On the October 29, 2012 edition of Raw, Paul Heyman addressed the crowd as, "Ladies, gentlemen, and the people of Charlotte."

Assembling a RAW team for the "Bragging Rights" PPV, HHH noted that "we have millions of dollars of talent and Cody Rhodes."

Then there's the fact that, for legal reasons concerning its (mostly) scripted nature, pro wrestling isn't actually a sport. Also, wrestlers aren't allowed to join SAG-AFTRAnote the union formed by the 2012 merger of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for similar reasonsnote unless they act in non-wrestling productions, with the most notable example being Dwayne Johnson, so they get this from two sides. Japanese pro wrestling famously toys with the ordeal, as while it is not widely considered a kakutogi (combat sport), most of the Japanese media which covers combat sports inevitably has pro wrestling among them and sometimes presented as the main one. And finally, Mexico prefers to consider pro wrestling as pro wrestling, separated both from sport and acting.

Grytpipe-thynne: You may have noticed that throughout the civilized world... and America... British prestige has fallen very low.

From the non-politically correct 1950's:

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen... and Wogs! We present - The Goon Show!

In 1/29/13, 95.1FM, a classic rock radio station based in Rochester, New York had its DJs mention the Guitar Center's Rock Walk of Fame and the bands included. One DJ says: "The Walk of Fame includes some of the greatest rock and roll bands in history... andMötley Crüe."

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is comprised of common men...and Danica Patrick. Similarly, Darrell Waltrip now announces green flags at the start of races by saying "Boogity-boogity-boogity! Let's go racin' boys... and Danica!"

Pittsburgh has become known in recent years as "the city of Champions... and the Pirates" in light of their baseball team setting a record for consecutive losing seasons, while the Penguins and Steelers have won multiple championships.

It is sometimes said that New York City is home to six professional sports teams... and the Mets (some version of this joke replace them with the Knicks, depending on how the teams are doing at any given time).

The 1992 Dream Team is remembered for being composed of 11 Hall of Famers who are considered some of the best players in the history of basketball... and Christian Laettner.

During the 2010 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony, in which the Dream Team officially entered the Hall as a unit, Larry Bird came to the pedestal and said that the team was "a cast of characters and different personalities... then Charles Barkley"

Even one of the Hall of Famers, John Stockton got this. There is home video of Stockton, getting off the team bus in the middle of traffic, and walking into the crowd with nary a person realizing who he was. He even talked to a woman who had a picture of his face on her shirt (it was a team picture printed on a t-shirt) and had no idea who she was talking to until his son flat out told her.

What was originally supposed to be a respected Miami Heat trio ended up being more known as the ultimate Miami duo of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James...and Chris Bosh.

There seems to be an inverted version of this when it comes to stereotypes of nations "apathetic" to soccer, in the saying that, "The only people that hate The Beautiful Game are Americans...and Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and some Irish." This is also true when it comes to stereotypes of nations referring the sport as soccer.

The National Hockey League, or rather, the entire sport of ice hockey, considering it is the least popular of the "Big Four" American and Canadian Team Sportsnote Due to among other things, the sport’s difficulty in appealing to the Southern United States considering that there is little to no snow in those areas and hockey is obviously popular in places where it snows in the winter., gets this quite a bit as some detractors will even omit Hockey from its major league status. Here, the group of leagues would be referred to as: "TheBigThree Sports...and Hockey."

This happens more frequently the more south you go (in which hockey is cropped out entirely or replaced withNASCAR). Don't say this the farther north you go though, especially in Canada.

In markets where hockey has a huge following (Canada, Michigan, Minnesota, New England, etc) basketball usually fits this trope. For a while, the Minnesota Timberwolves could only be heard on a 9,100K watt station that only reached the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities. The Minnesota Wild on the other hand, were on 50,000 watt WCCO.

When hockey is not getting this, it's usually Canadian Footballnote Due to the (at least perceived) skill and popularity disparity between the Canadian and American counterparts. or Soccernote For those familiar with the above example, this is unsurprising, although some would argue that being a "Zoidberg" is at least progress for soccer in North America, as really obscure and unpopular sports would not even be considered.

In Canada the line that opens a CBC hockey broadcast is: "Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland...". This is not exactly an example, as when the line was recorded (the 1930s) Newfoundland wasn't a Canadian province, but another of the self-governing dominions of the British Empire.

Conn Smythe began many a public speech with, "Ladies, gentlemen... and Frenchmen."

During 2011 and the first half of the 2012 Tennis season, it was common for pundits to say that the greatest players were unquestionably Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal...and Andy Murray, "the other guy" who was unquestionably better than anyone who wasn't Djokovic, Federer, or Nadal but unquestionably overshadowed by them nonetheless. It wasn't until the latter half of 2012 that Murray began breaking out of his "that Tennis player most likely to fill the last spot of a semifinals after Djokovic, Federer and Nadal show up for their reservations" role.

However, at the end of 2012, Andy Murray took a level in badass and became the first Brit to win a Grand Slam in 75 years. However, Rafael Nadal dropped out of the 2013 Australian Open and thus out of the top 4 for the first time since 2005. The Top 5 players in Men's Tennis was then therefore composed of: The Big Four... and David Ferrer. More recently, with a late-career resurgence by Stan Wawrinka, some observers are now putting him on a par with the Big Four.

The 36 men's Grand Slam singles titles between the 2005 French Open and 2013 US Open were won by the Big Four...and Juan Martín del Potro (US Open, 2009).note Since then, Stan Wawrinka has won three Grand Slam titles (the same as Murray's career total), and Marin Čilić has also picked up one.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is the primary college-level in the US, comprising of nearly every major and minor college and university in the United States... and Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Examples abound in NCAA Division I conferences. (All affiliations are current for the 2016–17 school year.)

The current Big East Conferencenote not to be confused with the original Big East, founded in 1979 and split in 2013 along football lines, with the seven schools that didn't play top-level football leaving to form a new Big East and the football schools reorganizing as the American Athletic Conference has 10 full members, consisting of nine Catholic institutions and Butler University, a private but nonsectarian school.

Another Big East Zoidberg: Villanova, playing football in the second-level FCS, is the only conference member that awards football scholarships. (The other two members with football programs, Butler and Georgetown, also play in FCS, but without football scholarships.)

Several conferences consist entirely of public schools except for one private institution (counting only full members):

Pioneer Football League (a football-only league): 10 private schools and Morehead State.note The PFL is made up of schools that offer scholarships in sports other than football, but wish to avoid the expense of scholarships for a football program. Morehead State is a member of the aforementioned Ohio Valley Conference.

The Big West Conference, which began as a football-sponsoring league but dropped the sport after the 2000 season, demonstrates this trope in two different ways:

The conference's current membership consists of eight California schools and the main campus of the University of Hawai'i.

More than 20 schools have been members of the conference, either in all sports or for football only, since it was founded as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association in 1969. Every one is a public institution except for the University of the Pacific, a historically Methodist school but now officially nonsectarian. It was a founding member for football only and joined in other sports in 1971, but left in 2013 to return to its former home of the West Coast Conference.

The West Coast Conference (also non-football):

For over 30 years (1980–2011), it consisted of seven Catholic institutions and Pepperdine University, affiliated with the Churches of Christ.

Returned in a slightly different form in 2013, when the aforementioned Pacific rejoined—the WCC now has nine church-sponsored institutions and one officially nonsectarian school.

Before 2015–16, the Horizon League (also a non-football conference) was made up of eight schools that had once been in The Summit League... and Detroit. Averted with the arrival of Northern Kentucky, which had spent the first three years of its move from NCAA Division II in the Atlantic Sun Conference.

A couple of football-playing conferences have one non-football school:

The Southern Conference, an FCS league, has UNC Greensboro as its only non-football member.

The 2016 season will be the last in which Conference USA will have UAB as its only non-football member. UAB dropped football after the 2014 season, but a strong fundraising and PR campaign—greased mainly by the shenanigans that surrounded the dropping of footballnote short version: it was more about politics within the University of Alabama system than money—led UAB to bring football back for 2017.

The Sun Belt Conference fits this trope for the 2016 season only. Coastal Carolina moved up from FCS as a full but non-football member, and will join Sun Belt football in 2017.

There are 24 HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) in Division I; all of them are full members of FCS conferences (two don't have varsity football teams). All of these schools are members of one of two conferences whose membership consists entirely of HBCUsnote the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Southwestern Athletic Conference... except Tennessee State.note in the Ohio Valley Conference

In terms of fandom, a couple of conferences are (or have been) famous for having single schools with a sporting obsession wildly out of place with the rest of the league:

SEC: Throughout the SEC, it's said there are two seasons: football and spring football. Not at Kentucky, where it's instead basketball and basketball recruiting. Football is mainly a nice diversion from basketball... at least as long as the Wildcats have a chance to make a bowl game.

ACC: For much of the conference's first 40 years, Clemson was notorious for being the one football-obsessed school in a basketball-obsessed league. (While other ACC schools, notably charter member Maryland and late-1970s arrival Georgia Tech, cared a good deal about football, they tended to care more about basketball. Clemson didn't even pay lip service to basketball.) This was averted in the early 1990s with a renaissance for Georgia Tech football and the arrival of Florida State, and has since become a thing of the past with the later arrival of football factories such as Miami and Virginia Tech.

Video Games

Used in one of the endings of Disgaea 2. "You aren't alone. You have friends that care about you...And Etna."

Is somewhat implied in Persona 4 if you take one of Yosuke's statements the wrong (or right way):

Yosuke: I have my friends and my family...and you.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: "Ladies and gentlemen...oh, and Helga." This is not exactly an insult, however, as Helga seems much cheerier after the addendum.

It's because Helga IS neither. She's a robot, and hence, genderless, even if she's modeled after a female.

It's likely that this is an objection on her part to Qwark's usage of "ladies" (as Helga is hardly lady material) rather than a reference to her being a robot. She identifies as female and is referred to as a female. Note that, despite being present at the time, Clank wasn't excluded like she was.

Game Informer's review of Devil May Cry HD Collection said in their concept tab: "Two great games for one great price. Also, Devil May Cry 2."

The Bungie Podcast's theme song ends with the line "It's our podcast show, with Brian and friiieeennnds...and Frankie."

Gigolo Assassin, one of the flash games on Adult Swim's website: "Great nations of the world...and Sweden."

Black Whirlwind's journal: Kill anything that moves, as long as it doesn't look like one of my companions or the bun man.

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves involves our protagonist having to distract the cops, so he interrupts a meeting (in the middle of the police station) being led by his love interest, Carmelita Fox. They are thoroughly distracted when he shouts out, "Attention assorted meatheads...and lady."

In Team Fortress 2, The Pyro in-universe. Despite the fact the Pyro they're talking about is also on the RED team, The Heavy calls him a "Thing", the Spy gives a monologue on how much he fears him, and the Scout calls him a "Freak".

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance has an awesome example, albeit a visual one: during Sora's "My Friends Are My Power!" Badass Boast in the cutscene of the same name, you get Xigbar's Oh Crap! face. This is the guy who laughed at Sora as he was dying. What's he freaking out about? Apparitions of every known Keyblade wielder in the series, Keyblades drawn... as well as Donald and Goofy.

In the Lunar: The Silver Star PSP remake, Royce turns your entire party to stone, save for Jessica, who mopes for a second with the line, "My father...my friends...and Kyle..." What makes it funnier is the fact that Kyle is the one who saved her from being "stoned" in the first place.

The implication is that she thinks of Kyle as more than a friend, not less.

In Mass Effect 3, during the mission to Sur'Kesh, Wrex has a moment like this if Garrus and Liara, two of his fellow party members from Mass Effect, are in the party.

Wrex: These females are the best, and probably last hope for my people. Liara: We'll get them back, Wrex. Don't worry. Wrex: I appreciate that, Liara. I wouldn't want anyone else along for the ride. Garrus: [clears throat]Wrex: I suppose I can make room for you, too, Garrus. (laughs)

In the soundtrack of Loco Roco 2 and LocoRoco Midnight Carnival, the singers for the credits song (etoule pucoratte) are listed as "Loco Roco All-Stars and Viole".

In Poker Night 2, at the start of a tournament, GLaDOS will sometimes say "Gentlemen. And Claptrap."

In Yu Gi Oh BAM, Misty Tredwell is introduced this way as you don't recognize her when you first see her.

Game: Just when you thought you were safe, Yusei, Akiza and... one of Tropica City's renowned top models surround you.

In Undertale, encounters involving Jerry introduce him separately from the other monsters, usually with a dismissive statement like "Jerry came too."

Luigi hilariously gets this treatment in Super Mario World when playing Two-Player Mode. Even if Luigi defeats a castle the congratulations screen still says Mario did it. Even if Luigi rescues Princess Peach, she declares that "she, Mario, the Yoshis, and their friends are going on a vacation!" It ain't easy being green.

A Star Wars: The Old Republic quest to repeat the final battle of the Shadow of Revan storyline lists the various NPC allies you'll fight along, with "And C2-D4note A protocol droid whose head is strapped to Jakarro's chest!" in parentheses after the list.

Sarge: Another important development from Bungie Labs is the homo-sapien propulsafier, also known as the man-cannon. Simmons: It fires men? Sarge: Yes, and also Grifs. Come here Grif. Let's says the Blues are launching co-ordinated offensive...What better way to slow them down, then to choke up their movement ways with dead soldiers, or if no soldiers are available, dead Grifs. Grif: Wait, what? (Sarge knocks Grif out and throws him in the man-cannon)

After a fight with RWBY in Painting the Town..., even Roman gets in on the act:

Roman: Ladies...Ice Queen... Weiss: Hey!

And when Nora is describing the various strengths of Team JNPR:

Nora: We've got a world-renowned fighter, what's basically a ninja, I can bench five of me... Jaune... we've been training all year, our weapons are awesome, Glynda barely yells at us anymore and, uh... Jaune! Ren: You going to take that? Jaune: [dejected] She's not wrong...

The Judger: We are "The Legion of Superheroes, and the Knifeketeer," a collection of the world's mightiest crime fighters. And the Knifeketeer. The Knifeketeer: I'm feeling a bit excluded. The Judger: You're included. That's what "and" means.

Xerxes: Are you going to introduce me to your friends? Rogue: I would if there were any here.

In the "Tournament" arc of Evil Inc., Grandgamer's Personnel File says that "he is obsessed with games and has mastered every one developed by a group of civilized, sentient beings in the universe. And Activision."

Quick! What do Yoda, Belle, Gollum, the Avatar chick, and the entire cast of Looney Tunes all have in common? Besides their ginormous eyes, obviously? Well, in addition to not being real humans, the voices who provided some of the most memorable characters in cinematic history—and Avatar—are all ineligible to win Academy Awards for their performances because, apparently, voice acting is not "acting."

On We're Alive Michael chastises a bunch of rebellious Tower dwellers by saying "I just sent two of my friends out there to help you people, and I'll not have you throw it back in their faces!" Angel brings it up a bit later:

Angel: Didn't we send three people out there? Michael: I said two friends. The other one was just Burt.

In this episode of Tabletop, Felicia Day introduces the other players with "I have an amazing set of guests here again, and my brother."

In the Team Four Star Pokemon Nuzlocke playthrough they eventually organized all of their extra Pokemon into a "Friends" and "Trash" tab. Voltron was shoved to the bottom right corner of the "Friends" tab since he was barely a friend.

In the finale a final quote is given in tribute to the Pokemon who died during the playthrough. Except Gourdon.

The Trope Namer, Bender's plea to Robot 1-X that he "Save my friends! And Zoidberg!" Over the course of the show, the writers have been trying to develop Zoidberg to have occasional bouts of heroic moments, in which he averts his own trope!

Zoidberg later returned the insult, referring to Leela, Fry, and Bender as "my friends and the robot."

Zoidberg even Zoidbergs himself:

Fry: Everyone we invited is here. Zoidberg: Also Zoidberg!

Zoidberg even did it in the midst of a monologue.

Zoidberg: So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg!

In "The Deep South", folk singer Donovan talks about how all the quality people (like Jeff Foxworthy and the inventor of Coca-Cola) evacuated the sinking city of Atlanta. As the boat pulls away and in the middle of his narration, Jane Fonda charges through the crowd, shoving people aside and leaps into the boat at the last second, prompting Donovan to add "And Jane Fonda was there too" mid-sentence.

Featured in "Brannigan, Begin Again" when Bender begs Leela to take command again.

Bender: "Leela, save me! ...And yourself, I guess. ...And my banjo!"

Fry: gestures to himself

Bender: "...And Fry!"

Of course, being "And Zoidberg"'d isn't always bad. In the evil robot Santa Claus'note who attempts to kill anybody who's on his "naughty" list, which is everybody, because his standards are impossibly high first appearance:

Robot Santa: You have all been very naughty, very naughty indeed! Except you, Dr. Zoidberg, this is for you. (Hands Zoidberg a pogo stick.)

Inverted in "Bender's Big Score":

Lars: Hello to everyone who isn't Leela. And a very special hello to everyone else.

The above example is a played-with variation. Timmy was going to say "Ladies and Gentlemen", but since his dad was the only gentleman in the room, he had to address him by "name". Also, what Timmy actually says is something like "Hey all you screaming women...and Timmy Turner's Dad", making it more a joke about Timmy's dad's masculinity.

In another episode:

Timmy: Everyone I know and love (and Mr. Crocker) are headed...!

In "Timmy's Secret Wish", Timmy risked his life to save other characters. A member of the Fairy Council described them as Timmy's friends and Foop. (Crocker and Dark Laser were among the 'friends')

Jorgen inverted it twice with "The reunion with the weakling fairies, AND ME, is going to begin." and in "Abracatastrophe": "This emergency meeting of every puny fairy in the universe, AND ME, will now come to order!"

When the group gets superpowers, Sheen decides to name their group the FantasticLeague of Justice-BringingAvenging Men. Libby objects, prompting Sheen to append, "And two girls!" Thereafter, whenever Sheen mentions the teams, it's the Fantastic League of Justice-Bringing Avenging Men and Two Girls. (Everyone else calls them the N Men.)

In Horrid Henry, Horrid Henry and the Lost Dog, Peter finds a dog's hair and analyses in his "lab", where he finds that it isn't a human hair, "and it isn't one of Henry's either".

Since 2 of the 3 opponents weren't Benders either, that was still quite Zoidbergish.

The Avatar Extras re-airings get into it too. In the end of "The Chase," when the Gaang plus Zuko attack Azula, it notes this is the first time in the series all four elements are seen attacking at once. Plus Sokka.

Hank You guys don't have to come. Dale Of course we're coming. We're the three amigos! ...And Bill.

A visual variant on the same style gag is done in, of all places, the darkest episode of Danny Phantom, "The Ultimate Enemy". In a Crapsack World future, Jack, Maddie, Jazz, Tucker, Sam, and Mr. Lancer are dead. The first five get a statue that says "Gone, but Not Forgotten". The last? Just plain "Gone".

In this case, Beast Boy had turned into a ring-tailed lemur just then, and Cyborg probably didn't know what he was.

In the Timon & Pumbaa episode "The Laughing Hyenas: TV Dinner", this is done visually. Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed sit in directors chairs. Shenzi has the megaphone of Director 1, Banzai has the megaphone of Director 2, but Ed has a megaphone labeled simply Ed.

Cartman is a frequent target of this. For example, in one early episode Kyle comments that he thinks of the group as his family—"except for Cartman."

Weirdly inverted in the "Coon and Friends" Trilogy, when the superhero team continues to use Cartman's egocentric name even after they kick him out. Mysterion notes that it "pisses him off beyond belief (giggles) and I find that extremely funny."

Frequently used when writing the Acknowledgments section of a doctoral thesis, as you will probably have to thank several people for political reasons, even if they don't actually merit mentioning. "I'd like to thank everybody who contributed to this project, and also this pet student my professor has". In extreme cases, your advisor is Zoidberg!

Before he became a senator, Al Franken performed at a Clear Channel pro-Iraq War rally. (He admitsit's not his proudest moment, since he was against the Iraq War, just as he is now.) He opened with: "Ladies, Gentlemen, SportsRadio 640 WGST contest winners, and Lee Greenwood..." This incident is referenced in his book, Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

Doug Demuro, Jalopnik columnist, invoked this trope with the passage: "For proof, I start with my own experience owning German cars. I've owned eight, in total: one from every important German automaker, and also Volkswagen. And they were all complete pieces of crap."

At the 2006 Academy Awards, Jon Stewart (who was hosting) opened with "Good evening everybody, ladies, gentlemen... Felicity." (Felicity Huffman, who was nominated for playing a transsexual in Transamerica.)

The solar system consists of eight planets... and Pluto, which along with other bodies is a dwarf planet.

From a community-driven appliance drive: "We accept all appliances...and microwaves."

Any speech that opens in the style of "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." risks sounding like this, especially if the listener perversely insists on interpreting the list as non-intersecting groups. The U.S. President's annual State of the Union address traditionally begins with something along the lines of "Ladies, gentlemen, members of Congress, distinguished guests..." In England, the proper way to greet a crowd is "Ladies, gentlemen, and officers of the Royal Navy", due to a decree by Queen Victoria stating that officers of the Royal Navy are not considered gentlemen.

In Argentina, after a train accident, this immortal line was given: "Murieron tres personas y un boliviano.", or if you prefer: "Casualties are three persons and a Bolivian.", you can just get yourself an idea of how racist our country is from that alone. And it still managed to be darkly hilarious.

Due to the Cold War, in a number of historical and fictional works about World War II, the Western Allied Powers are often shorted to simply Allied Powers, although the latter also included the Soviet Union and its allies (such as Polish Armia Ludowa). "Allied Powers... and the Soviet Union" sounds just like the trope.

When Khrushchev came to power in USSR, the opposition in Central Committee was labeled "factionary anti-party group which included Molotov, Kaganovich [...] and Shepilov who adjoined them", mostly to "discount" at least one — 8 members of the Communist Party top rung in "anti-party group" was too much. "Shepilov" immediately became memetic alias for any extra joining an established group, and it has become a joke that the longest last name in Russia is Andshepilovwhoadjoinedthem. Shepilov even wrote memoirs later, titled "The Unadjoined".

As of the 2015 Canadian federal election, the House of Commons consists of 184 Liberal MPs, 99 Conservative MPs, 44 New Democratic Party MPs, 10 Bloc Québécois MPs, and Elizabeth May.note She's the leader of the Green Party, and the first Green MP to be elected to the House of Commons.

"I've been fortunate enough to work with the likes of Peter Baynham, Armando Iannucci, Chris Morris, Simon Pegg, Julia Davis, Caroline Aherne, Ruth Jones, and the Mighty Boosh some of the funniest and most innovative people in British comedy. And Rob Brydon too."

During the January 18th Internet blackout protest, Gawker had a headline of "Today, some of the best websites on the internet—and Reddit—are blacked out to protest SOPA."

The G8 is often referred to by the press as "The 7 most developed countries... and Russia." note The actual ranking of Russia on the "most developed countries" list varies with the metric used. For example, as of 2012, Russia ranks 9th on gross domestic product, behind Italy, the UK and Brazil, however Russia ranks 4th on nuclear energy production and 1st on oil production (second behind the Arab League if the latter is taken as a whole country).

An intentional one: Canada and Quebec pension plan

The full name of the UK can come across as this: The United Kingdom of Great Britainnote (The proper name of the island that is composed of England, Scotland, and Wales) and Northern Ireland.

Rice University has a residential college system. When Martel was built, it was founded as a dormitory instead of a college, receiving 60 freshmen from the other colleges. The other colleges then decided to agree that Martel doesn't properly qualify as a college. Although Duncan and McMurtry have been built since then and are considered colleges, the running joke that "Martel is not a college" still remains, making common such statements as, "Remember, there are nine other colleges and Martel."

In the state of Georgia, Dade County, located in the extreme northwestern corner of the state. Until 1939, there was no access road to Dade County from the rest of the state, meaning one had to drive through Alabama or Tennessee to get to Dade County. More controversially, Dade County was omitted from the state outline on the Georgia State Quarter◊note Conversely, it could be considered a reference to Dade's 1860 secession not only from the Union, but from Georgia as well.

The "Lady Gaga Daily" Twitter feed reported on 12/4/12 that: "Lady Gaga is up against many talented artists and Nicki Minaj for three 2012 World Music Awards."

It's rather common to hear U.S. media say something along the lines of "X states and the District of Columbia", due to D.C.'s weird status in regards to statehood - officially it's not a state and so only gets one non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives and nothing at all in the Senate, but unlike US territories such as Puerto Rico and American Samoa (who get similar arrangements in Congress) the District is granted three electoral votes in the Electoral College (and this required the 23rd Amendment to be passed in 1961).

Played for laughs in the Giant Bomb video game community. At first it used to be Jeff, Ryan, Vinny, and Brad Shoemaker, mainly because Brad was known for playing pretty bad during video game quick looks, much to the entertainment of the community. A saying was even coined called "Pulling a Brad," as well as jokes about Brad getting fired and leaving the website. However, in recent years, Brad Shoemaker became decent enough to show off games properly during quick looks, to the point where the Butt Monkey effect wore off and "Team Brad" replaced it. Now Patrick Klepek is considered the "and" guy among the Giant Bomb cast, especially after his controversial articles about sexism in the video game industry, among other things that upset the community: a community that's used to jokes and sarcasm from the main staff, not serious articles about discrimination. He's also been included in almost every quick look since he joined the video game website.

In South America, Suriname (a former Dutch colony), Guyana (former British colony) and French Guiana (still a part of France) are often forgotten amidst 10 former Portuguese and Spanish colonies. Especially so in football (soccer)—these are the only three South American countries that are not members of CONMEBOL, which governs the sport in South America. They're instead members of CONCACAF, the continental governing body for the rest of the Americas and the Caribbean.

The Times of London website has a UK News tab, containing such topics as Media News, Crime, Law, and Scotland.

This quote from Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Edelstein concerning the morality of the death penalty.

I think it's clear that with regard to Jewish jurisprudence, the capital punishment outlined by the Written and Oral Torah, and as carried out by the greatest Sages from among our people ... did not remotely resemble the death penalty in modern America (or Texas).

From the 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner:

George Bush: I believe we're an America that should come together: Democrat, and Republican, and John McCain.

Inverted by Rachel Maddow, who once described Fox News as "a full employment program for Republican politicians and their patrons, plus a couple of journalists named Shep Smith and Greta van Susteren." Smith is widely acknowledged by the mainstream media as the Only Sane Man of Fox News who refuses to go along with his more partisan colleagues' blatant biases, and van Susteren is actually a good friend of Maddow's who has earned respect for her reporting from many in the profession. The obvious implication, of course, was that no one else employed by Fox qualified as a real journalist.

The megaregion of Southern California (that's with a capital "S") includes every county south of San Luis Obispo County, except Imperial County.note Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, and San Diego County, with some people including Kern County while others categorize it as part of the Inland Empire Hence, in order to describe the entire geographical region, it's sometimes referred to as "Southern California and Imperial County" or something synonymous. The reason is because Imperial County's population is an order of magnitude smaller than any of the other countries included within the megaregion, or in the case of Los Angeles, two orders of magnitude smaller. And just like Zoidberg, most natives can remember the other counties but forget that Imperial exists.

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